I've been a coach for almost nine (!!) years.
In that time, I've coached women one-on-one. I've taught more classes than I can count. I've run group programs. And I've worked with hundreds of clients.
I listened to every one of their problems. Clients applied the tools. Over time I learned what actually fixed things, and what didn't, for each specific problem.
From all of that, I developed a method. I call it the Overwhelm to Calm Method.
And the biggest thing I learned from it is this: there are two things you have to do to stop feeling overwhelmed and still get what you want in life.
1. Change the way you think. Break the old thought patterns that keep you running on empty, and practice thoughts that calm you down and help you move forward.
2. Do less, on purpose. Not less of everything. Choose where your best effort goes, and where it doesn't.
That's it. Two things. It sounds simple, and it is. It's also the opposite of what most of us have been doing for years.
So I decided to put everything I've learned from my clients, and every problem we've solved over nine years, into one place. A year-long group that teaches the method, with the structure and the support to actually use it.
It's called The Overwhelm to Calm Club. It's for busy women who are tired of overpromising, running on empty, and starting every month with a plan that doesn't survive the first week.
What you'll get: you'll learn to create and achieve realistic goals, say no without guilt, and feel calmer and more in control while you do it. In real life, that looks like:
Planning each month realistically and actually finishing what you planned
Saying no without over-explaining
Catching overwhelm early and calming down quickly when it hits
Feeling spacious instead of jam-packed, even in your busiest seasons
What's inside:
Monthly Live Group Coaching. We celebrate your wins, I teach a lesson, you get coached, and you plan a realistic next month. In the lessons, you'll learn the essential tools for creating a calm life, for example B-Minus Work (choosing where "good enough" is good enough), the Love and Fit Test (two questions to ask before you say yes), or the 3 C's of better self-talk.
Four seasonal sessions. These are timed to the important times in a woman's year, not the date on a calendar. Each one is a 90-minute workshop where we look ahead at what the season will ask of you, and you leave with a one-page plan. For example, in the New Year session you build your year plan, choose your word of the year, and design your Ideal Day.
The Clubhouse. An online community for support between calls. It's a group of women in the same boat as you, cheering each other on, sharing wins, and making this feel a lot more fun than doing it alone.
Club Notes. A private podcast for members only. Short, practical episodes you can listen to in the car or on a walk, so the tools and the encouragement stay with you between calls instead of fading after the live session.
The club opens Friday, November 27, with the lowest price it will ever have: $300 off for Black Friday only. Between now and then, I'll share more about how it works.
Join the waitlist here to be first in line and get the best price.
HOT OFF THE PRESS
“If you keep waiting for life to slow down, your important goals might stay on the back burner forever.”
You have a project. It’s an important project. You have ideas for it. You want to work on it. And you haven’t touched it for days, if not weeks.
An email needs answering. A task needs finishing. Someone needs something. And before you know it, another day is over, your brain is fried, and the project is still sitting there waiting.
You tell yourself you'll do it tomorrow.
Or when work slows down.
Or when the kids need you less.
Or when life becomes a little less chaotic.
But what if the problem isn't that you need a quieter week? What if you just need a simple way to look at everything competing for your attention and recognize the difference between what genuinely matters and what simply feels urgent?
This episode will help you rethink how you're spending your time, recognize which priorities deserve more attention, and stop leaving your most meaningful work until you have a magical week with absolutely nothing going on.
Check out episode 302 here: https://tinyurl.com/OWWPod.
“You're not necessarily overwhelmed because you have too much to do. Sometimes, you're overwhelmed because of the way you're talking to yourself about everything you have to do.”
We often assume that being hard on ourselves is what keeps us motivated. We think that if we stop pushing, criticizing, and telling ourselves we should be doing more, we'll somehow become lazy or fall behind.
But constantly telling yourself you're not doing enough doesn't magically create more hours in the day. It doesn't make your responsibilities disappear. And it certainly doesn't make you feel better about the life you're trying so hard to manage.
In fact, it can make an ordinary, busy day feel like a personal failure.
When you're constantly criticizing yourself for not doing enough, even the smallest tasks can start feeling like another opportunity to disappoint yourself. And that's an exhausting way to live.
If you're constantly feeling overwhelmed, even when you're doing everything you can to keep up, you might be carrying more than just your responsibilities. And the way you're talking to yourself could be making that invisible weight even heavier.
Listen now to discover how negative self-talk contributes to overwhelm and how to start feeling calmer without adding more to your plate.
Listen to episode 303 here: https://tinyurl.com/OWWPod!
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